Well, after several false starts, this forum is running on an updated version of vBulletin.

As well as some cosmetic changes (posts fill the screen width; the page layout is a bit simpler; etc.), you should now find that you have space for 100 PM (private messages) rather than the old limit of 70. There are also better tools for writing and editing messages, and tons of other goodies that I haven't even finished exploring myself yet!

I know that the "Representative of:" information is currently missing - I will be working hard to get this restored in the next day or so.

If you notice any problems or issues other than the ones already flagged above, please post! I'd also welcome general feedback...

ADDENDUM: I believe anywhere between 2 and 5 posts were lost during the upgrade. Apologies to those affected, but they've gone to the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky.

Every time I read a thread, a 'reply' window appears at the bottom of the screen, taking up half the screen. In most cases I do not want to reply, so I consider it a waste of space. Is there a way to revert to the previous behaviour, where the reply window appeared only when explicitly requested (by clicking quote or reply) ?

Unfortunately, the upgrade has broken character-entity support, which no longer works although it did until yesterday (e.g. &reg; is supposed to come out as ®)...

Is there any way to fix this?* I suspect it may be a bug in the new version...

(edit: it's no longer possible even to type a non-breaking space as [0][1][6][0], it's mangled to * -- definitely a bug.)

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Originally Posted by CyberSmurf

I know. A lot of my posts are going to look very strange because I have used "&nbsp;" for a non-breaking space. ·

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Originally Posted by carverrn

While I appreciate all the efforts and I'm sure I'll get use to it, this format seems to be much "busier" and much harder to read at a glance. The old format seemed to be cleaner.

Also, for me at least, buttons that are words like "Quote" and "Reply" are much easier to distinguish than icons that look similar.

This format also seems to take up a lot more screen space. Causing me to frequently scroll down to get to buttons to click.

And my Rank as a "Runbox Representative" has been lost.

Regards,
Rich

Er, maybe we should have a rollback to the previous version?M This one is looking (to me) more and more like a giant leap backwards.

The only thing which strikes me as a genuine improvement is the great new "multi-quote" feature which I used for this reply (having heard about it on another board which uses this software); and to my mind this (partly because it's of limited usefulness) isn't adequate compensation for all the things which have been made worse by this "upgrade"...